Sobekhotep wrote:OK, so I'll provide a summary of all the "circumstantial evidence" for Altaic that I can think of.Phonology-vowel harmony found in every branch except, perhaps, for Japonic-rhotic phonemes do not begin native words in any branch-a system of complementary distribution for velar & uvular plosives & fricatives is found in Mongolic, Tungusic, & in some Turkic languagesGrammar-SOV syntax found in every language-all languages are agglutinative & strictly suffixing-a case system with nominative unmarked in Turkic, Mongolic & Tungusic; a system of "particles" found in Korean & Japonic-no articles-no grammatical gender-no distinction of singular & plural, except for animate nouns & pronouns; the suffixes used to show plural have similarities: compare Japanese -ra with Uzbek -lar & Tuvan -ler; Japanese -tachi, Korean -deul, Kazakh -dar

As far as I know these same traits are found in Uralic.

True, but the other traits aren't. Many language families have similar traits.

dtp883 wrote:I think I remember something from when I was younger about a Uralic-Altaic Link and being stunned by the connection of Finnish and Japanese...not realising at that age that it was only a theory.